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PAPER 3
Hazardous Earth
Haiti - 2010
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Cards (18)
25km
south west of Port au
Prince
10km
deep focus
7
moment magnitude
4
:
53
government in session
12
January
2010
-
30seconds
North American and Caribbean
Enriquillo-Plantain
fault
Soft
rock in
bay
shaking
250,000
homes destroyed
30,000
commercial buildings destroyed
50
% of population is in Port au
Prince
72
% of population <$
2
per day
60
% of hospitals destroyed
80
% schools
500,000
injured
230,000
killed
2.3
million dispersed
19
million m3 off debris
1,100
camps,
54
housed >
5000
people
600,000
left home area
$
8.5
billion damage recovery
75
% of GDP
$
5.8
billion pledged as aid - less than
half
given
Nothing done to modify event or
vulnerability
$
6
billion emergency aid
48
% of 13.34 reached Haiti